Television Crossover Universe

 I'm running out of crossovers.  I used to have a rule.  Only series that had three crossovers get covered.  But I'm running out of ideas.  So now I'm also going to cover series that had a franchise, meaning they spun off movies or such from the original concept.  (In doing my due dilligence, I found that this series actually does have the crossovers to make it following my three crossover rule.) So today we're going to talk about Gilligan's Island.  With Gilligan, the skipper too.  The Millionaire and his wife.  The movie star, and the rest... okay, fine, the professor and Mary Ann.   William Gilligan was a mighty sailor man, or so the story goes.  However, he seemed on the island to be dimwitted at best. CPT Jonahs Grumy was the skipper.  He was brave and sure.  If not for the courage of the fearless two, the S.S. Minnow would be lost.   Thurston Howell III is a former multi-billionaire until after the sto...

 This post is not about the Washington Generals but rather than famous nemesis, the Harlem Globetrotters. 1926 to 1954--Go Man Go--The Story of Abe Saperstein and the creation of the Harlem Globetrotters.   1951--The Harlem Globetrotters--A student drops out of college to chase fame and fortune with the Harlem Globetrotters. 1956 to 2024 -- Gameshows and Talkshows--The Globetrotters have made many appearances.  Since they are "real" I'm not going to talk about every time they appear with other "real" people, but only mention when they appear with fictional characters as fictional versions of themselves.   September 12, 1970 to October 16, 1971--HARLEM GLOBE TROTTERS--"The New Scooby-Doo Movies" aka "Scooby-Doo Meets the Harlem Globetrotters" was a Hanna-Barbera show that featured the animated Harlem Globetrotters September 9, 1972 - October 27, 1973 --THE NEW SCOOBY-DOO MOVIES (ANIMATED SERIES)--Mystery, Inc. continues to solve mysteries, but...

I wasn't sure what I wanted to talk about this Christmas. But then I remembered I had written the following for Television Crossover Universe: Worlds and Mythology Volume II, a book that I started but then ran out of steam. The book is likely never to be published, but I put a lot of work into this essay which is complete so why not publish it here? THE TELEVISION CROSSOVER UNIVERSE TAKES A HOLIDAY: THE SANTA CLAUS MYTHOS Originally Presented in Ho Ho Ho! The Santa Blog and Easter Comes Late...The Bunny in the TVCU and inspired by Gordon Long’s Of Flying Reindeer, Talking Snowmen, and the World's Greatest Toymaker: The Rankin-Bass Universe Timeline "HO HO HO! Now, my friends, I will show you the way the real Santa Claus should look. Please! As if there was such a person as Santa Claus, which is of course absolutely ridiculous in a people's democracy!" Chairman Georgi Koz 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' When children believe that Santa Claus is real, he IS ...

 I've previously covered the works of Stephen King and their adaptations, and then covered Children of the Corn in a separate post. I recently watched the early adaptations of Stephen King for my October watch and was thinking about how two different versions of the Dead Zone are in the TVCU.  Both the original novel and the television series are connected to the TVCU.  This kind of weird coincidence where similar versions of the same character exist in the same universe are not uncommon in the TVCU.  Different versions of Superman exist in the same universe.  The American and British Office have crossed.  Baywatch the movie exists in the same universe as the tv series.  They are even working on a way for Ghosts UK and Ghosts USA to crossover.   So here is my post on the Dead Zone.   THE DEAD ZONE (NOVEL BY STEPHEN KING) Release Date: August 1979 (Contemporary Setting) Series: Stephen King Universe (works of Stephen King) The Story:...